Re: [Plib-users] Fwd: Re: flightgear problem

[Cameron M. <li...@to...>]

* sjb...@ai... [2001.08.24 10:14]:
> pieter bonne wrote:
> > : >> FATAL: ssgInit called without a valid OpenGL context. <<
> > 
> > This is really a plib problem that affects FlightGear.  Plib always
> > checks for a valid GL context before it begins rendering, and it's
> > obviously failing.  We haven't quite figured out what's causing this.
> 
> PLIB is absolutely entitled to check that the OpenGL rendering context
> is valid before starting rendering.

I understand that and didn't mean to make it sound like plib was broken.
Poor choice of wording...

> > : I run mandrake8, heavily customized. kernel 2.4.8enterprise (mandrake
> > : package update), bleeding edge version of XFree4.1 and Mesa-3.4.2-3 &
> > : plib-1.4.2-1 (else I wouldn't have been able to compile I believe? ;)..
> 
> Mandrake 8 and RedHat 7.xx are both based on the same crappy C/C++ compiler
> version. It wouldn't at all suprise me if that ended up being the problem
> that's showing up in Mesa.  I've not heard a single problem report from
> users of other distro's.
> 
> > All reports we've had before now where specific to RedHat, but you are
> > using Mandrake...interesting.
> 
> Mandrake have always taken the RedHat distribution as their starting point.
> 
> In a sense, Mandrake 8 is just RedHat 7 with some minor variations.

Actually, Pieter sent more info[1] the flightgear-users list saying:

  "To get my direct rendering to work, I installed redhat packages on
  my mandrake system ..."

Aha!!  That's actually good news.  Mandrake is not broken as it first
seemed from Pieter's report.  :-)

And to set the record straight, Mandrake does *not* start with Red Hat
packages.  It did in it's infancy, but hasn't done so since the Mdk 5.x
releases, IIRC.  They do their own packages from scratch now.

[1] http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/11854/0/6468891/
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Cameron Moore